Discover Norgard™ Products Across Industries
As we welcome the New Year, we’re thrilled to introduce fresh opportunities, projects, and products driven by passion and purpose. In 2024, our goal is to better serve diverse industries with a comprehensive product portfolio designed for bonding, protection, and insulation needs. Whether it’s high-strength bonding, permanent fixation, masking, cushioning, gasketing, thermal management, isolation, coil winding, or harness wrapping, our specialized solutions are crafted to meet even the most demanding challenges. These offerings span the Norseal®, Norbond®, and Norgard™ product lines.
With the exciting addition of the Norgard™ product family, we’re embracing 2024 as a new era of innovation. These advanced film products enhance our capabilities and extend our reach into electronics, life sciences, alternative energy, aerospace, and more.
Here are eight key insights into the transformative applications and groundbreaking innovations of Norgard™ Specialty Films that you won’t want to miss!
1. Applications in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy
As the solar industry continues to advance, Norgard™ Specialty Films play a crucial role by delivering effective moisture barriers and robust protection for solar panels. These films enhance efficiency by optimizing light transmission and minimizing glare. With outstanding transparency and resistance to corrosion, UV radiation, and extreme temperatures, they are ideal for maintaining the durability and performance of solar systems.
Their electrical, surface, weather, and thermal insulation properties make them well-suited for insulating and safeguarding solar cells and related components. Additionally, in thin-film solar cells, these materials facilitate the transport of charge carriers generated from sunlight absorption, converting solar energy into electricity.
2. Aerospace and Composite Molding
Norgard™ films deliver innovative solutions for aerospace applications thanks to their customizability, exceptional strength, flexibility, and ability to withstand temperatures up to 400°F. FEP-RF and ETFE-RF release films excel in chemically aggressive environments, offering outstanding resistance, which makes them ideal for demanding composite aerospace molding processes.
3. Filter Membranes
Norgard™ Zitex® stands out for its superior chemical compatibility and thermal stability, making it capable of withstanding even the harshest corrosive fluids. Naturally hydrophobic, Zitex prevents liquid passage below initiation pressures while allowing gases to flow freely. These properties make it an excellent material for hydrophobic venting, ensuring pressure equalization in liquid packaging containers. During chemical transport, Zitex prevents vapor entrapment within drums, reducing the risk of bursting and enhancing safety and reliability.
4. Signage Protection
Signage plays a vital role in marketing, navigation, and communication, but its effectiveness depends on its durability in challenging environmental conditions. Norgard™ products like ETFE offer robust protection for signage, guarding against extreme temperatures, chemical exposure, and long-term outdoor aging. These materials ensure that signage remains functional and visually appealing over time, regardless of environmental stressors.
5. Life Science Materials
Norgard™ Specialty Films are an excellent choice for medical and life science fluid bags due to their low-temperature flexibility and chemical inertness. These bags, commonly used in genetic studies and biotechnology, support the collection, preparation, and storage of tissue samples. Norgard™ films offer optical transparency with low haze, exceptional thermal and chemical resistance, anti-stick properties, and are both thermoformable and heat sealable. Their flexibility at low temperatures makes them particularly suitable for cryogenic sample bags and other specialized applications.
6. Clean and Efficient Energy Storage and Transport
With the growing emphasis on sustainable energy solutions, innovative materials are crucial for advancing clean energy production and storage. Norgard™ products provide reliable solutions for hydrogen production and distribution, offering hydrophobic barrier capabilities in hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers when used as gaskets, seals, or separators. These materials are engineered with properties such as high gas and moisture barriers, chemical resistance, thermal stability, and optical clarity, and can be tailored to specific performance needs. In demanding environments, they enhance the efficiency, durability, and longevity of electrolyzers and fuel cell stacks.
7. Advancing Sustainable Farming
Indoor farming is reshaping agriculture by maximizing crop yields and reducing the carbon footprint of food production. Norgard™ Specialty Films are a key innovation for greenhouse and architectural roofing applications, ensuring optimal performance in these environments. Lightweight and durable options, such as ETFE films, outperform traditional materials like polyester. Additionally, these films can be engineered with specific filters to optimize lighting and UV exposure, creating ideal growing conditions for different crops and significantly boosting productivity.
8. Durable and Reliable Electronics
Norgard™ Specialty Films excel as dielectric insulators in electronic applications, offering exceptional performance for wire insulation, circuit board insulation, and circuit board lamination. These films enhance the durability and lifespan of electronic devices and appliances. Products like E5 and E7 are specifically designed to provide low dielectric constant values, reducing transmission losses in coaxial cables for improved performance.
A Perfect Addition to the Bonding, Protection, and Insulation Portfolio
The Norgard™ Specialty Film product line seamlessly integrates into our family of solutions, offering unmatched versatility. From release capabilities to robust protection in solar, signage, and greenhouse applications, and exceptional insulation properties in electronics, wires, and cables, these films address a wide range of challenges.
In a future defined by innovation and dependability, you can trust our products and team of experts to meet your most demanding application requirements. With advanced testing capabilities, localized support, and global resources, we’re here when standard solutions fall short. Our customized offerings ensure a perfect fit for your unique needs, empowering you to tackle even the toughest challenges.
